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The one quirk about installing A/UX on a Quadra 650 that I remember is I think you need to put the apropos System Enabler for the Quadra 610/650 on both the boot floppy you use to install it and on the installed 7.1 partition that A/UX boots from. That process is covered in the A/UX FAQ and...

I ended up stripping down a few smashed-to-heck PB G4s back then; used to have a small collection of those little boards the PRAM batteries were soldered to. Probably tossed them all by now, alas. Also had a few slot-loading drives that I always intended to try using for some cool case-mod...

It did seem a bit like it was getting over the top in the anti-Titanium department (in addition to treading the line about getting personal), particularly considering the OP was all about proudly showing off a couple of the units they'd put a fair amount of work into spit-polishing. I understand...

Blame the victim, eh? You've probably heard of this recall of 2015-2017 MacBook Pros. Apple optimistically says it was a "limited number" that were affected, but *everyone* in my office got the recall notice, and by the time it came out many of the machines had already started puffing up. My...

A Titanium is thin enough to stick under the lip of every monitor stand I have in sight, most of my monitors have multiple inputs so it's easy to just tether it when I want it, and the laptop *also* works by itself, which is not true of a PowerMac or Mini. (And I definitely do not have room to...

Here's the counter-argument: TiBooks are *considerably* more common than Pismos; they made the Pismo for 11 months and Apple was still climbing out of the big hole Steve Jobs was recruited to dig them out of when he got on board in 1997, so they also weren't selling anywhere near as fast...

And yeah, I'll totally agree that physically they sucked. The first gen ones in particular were comically fragile, but they were all pretty bad. Even a *minor* drop, like a few inches down on a desk, could crack the bonding in such a way that the laptop would henceforth feel "floppy" when held...

Several notes: 1: CoreImage is relevant for running OS 9 software? 2: The G4 Mac Mini had a Radeon 9200 in it. That is *not* a CoreImage supported GPU. 3: In fact, the *only* G4 tower that came with a CoreImage compatible GPU was that non-9-bootable one, and then only as an option. 4...

Kind of veering just slightly off-topic, has anyone tried booting a late Titanium off of the PCMCIA card slot? I was under the impression this was something that worked on older Powerbooks up until at least the G3 era, but it doesn't seem to work on my 867mhz machine. (I've had a couple used...

To be clear, I'm not saying the Pismo is a "bad" machine for running OS 9, it's probably more than adequate for almost anything you might possibly want to do under that OS. I'm just not quite able to grok how it's a "better" machine than one that's objectively (if only incrementally) higher spec...

I think you're thinking of the "Pentium 4-M" here. (I know it's incredibly confusing because both were regularly referred to as the "Mobile Intel Pentium 4", the -M would use confusing nomenclature like "Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor-M" in flyers, like in this dell ad..) Alas you're not...

The big, big weakness to Tibooks other than their general fragility is their screen hinges; given enough time they *will* fail, and when they do there's a good chance it'll be catastrophic. (IE, literally snapping the screen off the machine.) Problems with hinges are not unique with the Ti, they...

So, I just finished using that "Custom OS9 Restore" to get the OS loaded, in a sort of roundabout way. (I found it right after my previous post.) Said "restore" is simply the contents of the hidden disk image that's on the DVD restore images. To avoid wasting another CD-R blank I formatted a...

So, I compared your disk to the one I had, and all the file sizes and datestamps are identical. So, yeah, it appears to be the same disk as "PBG4_OS9.toast_.sit here. If anyone *does* have luck installing on 867-1Ghz with this disk I'd certainly be interested in hearing about it.

If it doesn't work I might proceed with plan B, which is seeing if I can install it in a QEMU session on a Linux machine and use Target Disk Mode to copy it onto the Titanium. I'm 99.44% sure the OS itself will be fine if it's dragged over from a working install, it's just the frustrating...

I do have a TiBook, but the last revision 867-1Ghz model has a different system ID from the 667-800 and the installer detects it. The hardware differences between the two are pretty minimal but the later one does have a different video card. (Radeon 9000 vs. 7500.) If that's the disk you have...

I have a bad feeling I might have tried that disk. I initially misidentified my machine as a 667 instead of an 867mhz (it downclocks the CPU on the System Profiler if you run it from a booted OS 9 CD) and on the 'Garden under the OS/restore disks section for the 667/800mhz model there was a OS 9...

I tried an "eMac" CD; I don't know if it was the *right* eMac CD, but it gave me the same "nope" as everything else I tried.

I've already effectively made a few coasters, so I guess it's time to beg for help. Does anyone know for certain if any of the various "Universal" OS 9.2.2 installation CDs that are floating around will actually work to install OS 9 on one of these last-model Titanium G4s? I've tried a number of...

Yuck. Something I didn't mention about that cheap-o LCD/Scaler board combo I bought on eBay: the eBay listing I ordered *that* from proclaimed it was "NEW", all-caps. Actually, no, the LCD panel I received with it has the worst burn-in I've ever seen. It looks like it might have been harvested...